21st August, 2019, 22:00 pm
The rainy season is ending with the welcoming of autumn. A 3-day holiday vacation is on the horizon. A long vacation in my country means no bus or train tickets. Somehow, through connections, we were able to manage the tickets for our destination.
Around 22:10 our bus reached the bus counter for passenger boarding and it was the last bus for our destination on that day. After 10 minutes, our journey began. First front rows were our seats, so whatever happened it's clearly visible to us. The bus was not new either not very much old. The first overtake our driver took, made us all pray to God for being alive to reach our destination. He was overtaking buses, trucks, cars here and there left and right, where millimeter gaps count, any error and we four will visit The God place surely. One passenger from middle section request the supervisor of the bus to drive slowly. But after his suggestion, God knows what happened, the speed of the bus suddenly increased more than before. The first break for refreshment given normally highway hotels situated 140km from starting point. Due to heavy traffic on the road, average bus take 1 hour 45-60 minutes, but our genius driver arrived the hotel within 1 hour and 15 minutes.
After refreshing and a little bit of eating, we resumed our journey when the 20-minute refreshing break was over. This time we all close our eyes for a good sleep because tomorrow we have a big plan for hill tracking. We just pray to God and try to have a good sleep for the rest of 249km. After 15-20 minutes of sleep we all woke up due to heavy left and right moves, our driver making to overtake slower vehicle. We all have to forcefully enjoy our driver's awesome driving skills through all the remaining time of our journey.
The most dangerous thing was the remaining 20 km which was a single-lane hilly road with sharp left and right turns. Sometimes, you are climbing, sometimes you are falling, and the altitude is so high you can see the clouds on the road and mistake it for fog. Now, these roads are what you expect, driving carefully as any small mistake and you find yourself into the abyss. But our master, took this danger as a challenge and overtook whichever bus came into his vicinity.
Around 7:00 am in the morning we reached our destination, safely and in one piece. After arriving, we discussed with our driver about his driving style. He with proud told us for the last 20 years he is driving on the same road without any major issues or accidents because if you are involved in any accident, you won't be able to tell the tale.
After completing the breakfast, we resume our journey from the top of hill mountain to our resting destination for the day via walking.
The journey was reckless and memorable to us as we reached our destination very earlier than our predicted time but the way of driving was very reckless and if any bad incident happened nobody on the bus survive. So, stop enjoying reckless driving and drive safely and carefully. Somebody always wait for you at home for your safe arrival. So stay safe and travel safe.